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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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Enhancement to notify me functionality; "Notify me" Include Email Notification Option (Cloud & OnPrem)

Current : when a user selects an option to notify me for the report/output, when the scheduled report gets updated. Cognos notifies the user with bell notifications updates in Home Portal. Functionality Need: In addition to the Bell notifications,...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Revometer/Speedometer Graph

We are beginning to see an increasing demand for the "Revometer" graph from our "non-finance" folks. These customers will automatically disengage with stacked graphs/pie charts etc, which appear to "finance centric".
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Setting to keep descending objects always aligned with the primary parent folder

While not a one-size-fits-all solution, we found that many clients prefer to keep object instances aligned in folders that match the primary ancestor. E.g. if an issue was originally created under one entity, and they decide to switch the ownershi...
about 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 3 Planned for future release

Report options like "Double-click on member action" should be a personal preference.

While authoring a report it is possible to set some options. (https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEP7J_11.1.0/com.ibm.swg.ba.cognos.ug_cr_rptstd.doc/c_cr_rptstd_intrd_set_options.html). These options are saved in the browser cookies. The...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Job paramters settings also for Datasets

Simple scenario using datasets and scheduling it with a job or using a normal schedule. The dataset is built using parameters so when you save and load it for the first time it requires you to put parameters. If i would to refresh the dataset usin...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

possibility to add a column at the partition clause without dropping the table

We would like to have the possibility to modify the PARTITIONING clause without DROPPING the table, with an ALTER COMMAND
about 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

auto-reorg OLR for cleanup of overflows

Auto-reorg should use online window to issue REORG CLEANUP OVERFLOWS (and also trigger a RUNSTATS afterwards).Problem to solve: SQL optimizer thinks overflow accesses are quite expensive and then might to start choosing different access plans that...
over 6 years ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration

Enable two-factor authentication (2FA) for Management Console

We have run into a situation where we need to have select access on application objects in order to be able to use Management console. However this type of application access is restricted to our 'privileged' IDs, which use 2FA to login. But Manag...
about 7 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Need the ability to copy collection configuration and data from one environment to another

The backup and restore script in Watson Discovery allows you to copy all collection configuration and data from one environment to another. However, it is not possible to copy date for a specific collection. This feature is useful when collections...
7 months ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

Need a crawler in Watson Discovery to crawl documents from Confluence

Confluence is a popular repository that many companies use. Currently there is no option to crawl Confluence documents.
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Discovery / Watson Explorer 0 Submitted